MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 30. 1963
iry and Stop Me
-By BENNETT CERF-
A fT0RY President Hoover loved to tell about his pre-
IHop , Sr Coo''dEc, concerned the day the Cool
lomi w ned a miss'onary at their Northampton, Mass.,
home before the visitor
delivered a scheduled ad
dress at the Congrega
tional Church. Grace
Coolidge cooked a special
dinner, but the mission
ary wouldn't eat a bite of
it explaining that a meal
would spoil his delivery.
Mrs. C. was annoyed
and stayed home, so Mr.
Coolidge escorted the
missionary alone to the
church. When he came
home. Mrs riu..
, . WMUC I
asKea, "How did it go?" CALVIN COOUDGE
Cal's laconic reply was: "He might as well have et!"
. .
Old Satch Paige, one of baseball's all-time greats, had a six
point formula for staying young:
1. Avoid fried moats which angry up the blood.
2. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with
cool thoughts.
3. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you
move.
. Go light on vice, such as carrying on with society folks. The
social ramble ain't restful.
5. Avoid running at all times.
6. Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Colonel Duffy is bemoaning the plight of the mattress tester
Who got fired for standing up on the job.
O 1963, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kin Features Syndicate
Anderson Absolved
By Air Force for
Slayings in Idaho
Mountain Home, ldaho.-IUPH
-Airman Gerald M. Anderson,
25, was a free man today after
10 months' imprisonment by
the Air Force for a double
slaying another man had con
fessed. Anderson was released at
4:30 p.m. Tuesday from the
Mountain Home AFB stock
ade shortly after the Air
Force announced it was drop
ping a double murder charge
against him.
The Air Force announced in
Washington, D.C. today it
would discharge Anderson
soon because of the "unusual
circumstances'" surround i n g
CUB SCOUT NEWS
Cub Scouts Pack 8
Bobcat pins were presented
by Cub Scout Master Glenn
Williams at the January meet
ing of Cub Scout Pack 8 at
the Jackson school.
They went to the following
new members: Paul McMa
han, Douglas Overstrect, Mi
chael Knudsen, Ray Spencer,
Denis Crews, Lance Goucher
and Larry Anderson.
One of the honorary events
of the evening was presenta
tion of Den Chief Cord to Jack
Young of Troop 9. Den 9 con
ducted the flag ceremony and
the Rev. Bruce Rogers gave
the invocation.
Awards presented by Rich
ard Childress, awards chair
man, included: wolf badge,
John Rogers, Bill Huson,
Bruce Shaffer, Ron Havice,
Dick Havice, and Steve Neth
erland; bear award, Steve
Gray; lion award, Dan Van
Liew and Mike Nelherland;
wolf gold arrow, Bruce Shaf
fer, Bill Huson; wolf silver
arrow, Bruce Shaffer and
Mike Netherland.
Rick Childress received two
silver arrows. First-year pins
went to Ferrin Kilby. Rodney
Kuschel. Martin Hooper. Pres
ton LaPratt, Jim Ronandcr,
John Hinkle, John Boardman,
Gary Konopasek. First -year
perfect attendance pins were
awarded Gary Konopasek,
John Hinkle, James Ronandcr,
.John Hinkle. James Ronan
dcr, Larry Calkins. Preston
LaPratt, Martin Hooper, Fer
rin Kilby, Gerald Brawn.
Second-year pins went to
Frankie Arnold and Larry
Hinkle. Second-year perfect
attendance pin was awarded
Larry Hinkle.
Denner awards were pre
sented Chuck Chcalum, Bill
Huson, Larry Hinkle. Assis
tand denner awards went to
Bruce Shaffer, Gary Konopa
sek. Larry Anderson, Doyle
Baker and John Baker. Palms
went to Ron Havis. Preston
LaPratt and Ferrin Kilby.
Den 10 won possession of
the cup for having the largest
number of parents and friends
attending the mecling.
Den 8 won the tic and slide
for having the most dads pres
ent. The pack window display
for Boy Scout Week will be
located at Burks Tent and
Awning shop. The Blue and
Gold banquet will be hold
Feb. 28.
his case. Rep. Ralph Harding
(D-Idaho) said.
Anderson had applied for a
hardship discharge.
Believed Innocent
The Air Force said it be
lieved Anderson was innocent
of the stabbing deaths here
last April of Mrs. Nancy Joy
Johnson, 22, and her son,
Danny, 2.
Triple murder suspect
Theodore Thomas Dickie, 22,
an ex-convict whose confes
sion to the Johnson slayings
prompted the state of Idaho
to exonerate Anderson two
month ago, said in his cell at
the Ada county jail in Boise,
"I'm glad for him."
Dickie, who also has con
fessed to the rape-slaying of a
10-year-old Boise girl, has
been held by the state since
November for the slayings of
Mrs. Johnson and her son.
General Makes Decision
. Lt. Gen. Archie Old Jr.,
commander of the 15th Air
Force at March AFB, near
Riverside. Calif., notified Air
Force authorities here he had
concluded the young airman
was innocent.
Anderson was not available
to the press for comment, the
Air Force said.
The bodies of Mrs. Johnson
and her son were found by
the woman's husband, A-1C
Alec Johnson. Her body had
been knifed nine times and
the child's throat slashed.
Anderson was a neighbor
of Johnson, and it was Ander
son who. at Johnson's request,
called the police here.
Gave Confession
The Office of Special In
vestigation picked up Ander
son a day later and question
ed him for more than a week.
At the end of the week, the
OSI had a confession from
Anderson to the murder of
Mrs. Johnson.
Anderson later said OSI
agents "pressured" him into a
confession. After Dickie's con
fession, the state of Idaho re
leased Anderson but the Air
Force arrested him on the
same day. Later it held two
hearings.
Tuesday's announce m e n t
climaxed the case.
Girl Takes Poison
After Reprimand
Pittsburgh - (UPll - A 14-year-old
girl who admitted
she swallowed poison because
she had been reprimanded for
smoking at school died Tuesday.
Marlcnc Burke told her
grand mother, Mrs. Alberta
Burke, that she had taken
roach powder. Mrs. Burke
telephoned South Side hos
pital and learned what anti
dote to give the girl.
The grandmother said Mar
lene showed slight improve
ment and then went into a
coma. She was taken to the
hospit.il but was pronounced
dead on arrival.
Mrs. Burke said Marlenc
told her she took the poison
Monday because she had been
reprimanded for smoking at
Hcrron Hill Junior High
school.
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Bidders for 12
Road Jobs Listed
Salcm-Wli-Apparent 1 o w
bids on 12 projects were open
ed here by the Highway Com
mission Tuesday.
The projects totaled $5,070.
425. slightly below the depart
ment's estimate. C o ntracts
will be awarded Thursday.
The projects included, by
county:
Clackamas; Clackamas
overcrossing-Park Place sec
tion of Casade Highway-Ernest
Fcrrante & Co., Portland.
S9.252.
Gilliam: Arlington viaduct
section, Columbia River High
way-Pacific Concrete and Otis
T. Jordan Jr., Portland, SI,
217, 333.
Hood River: Mitchell Point
Hood River section of Colum
bia River Highway-Rogers
Construction Co., Portland.
$790,311.
Hood River: Whiskey
Creek-Hood River section of
the Ml. Hood Highway-Henry
H. Miller Construction, Inc.,
and Ed A. Miller, Wilbur,
Ore., $575,706.
Jackson; Crater Lake in
terchange ramps section,
Pacific Highway - Madson
and Stokes, Roseburg, $20,
765. Josephine: Grants Pass -Evans
Creek section. Pacific
Highway-Madson and Stokes,
Roseburg, $27,445.
Josephine: Building addi
tion to existing office build
ing at Grants Pas s-Jack
Mathis, Inc., Roseburg, $14,
110. Lane: Judkins Point-Goshcn
section of the Pacific High
way near Eugene - Solomon
Aichcle, Portland, $26,623.
Marion and Linn: N. Jeffer
son junction-N. Albany inter
change section, north of Albany-Page
Paving, Salem,
$397,750.
Multnomah: N. Shaver st.
Morisson Bridge interchange
unit, east bank freeway sec
tion of Pacific Highway in
Portland-Peter Kicwit Sons,
Vancouver, Wash., $988,065.
Multnomah: Remodeling ex
isting office building in Portland-
E. Carl Schiewe, Port
land, $61,408.
Wasco: Dufur-Gap section
of The Dalles-California high
w a y - Rogers Construction,
Portland, $959,659.
Deducting Storm Loss Caused To Trees Proving Big Headache
Frost's Funeral
Will Be Thursday
Cambridge, Mass. - IUPI) -Poet
Robert Frost, 88, will
have a simple New England
funeral. i
Private funeral services,
with only his family in at
tendance, will be held Thurs
day at Memorial Chapel at
Harvard university.
The silver-haired poet will
be buried Sunday in a small
family plot at Old Benning
ton. Vt., near his wife and
parents.
A public memorial service
will be held Sunday at Am
herst college where the four
lime Pulitzer Prize winner
received his first appointment
as a professor and spent many
years writing.
The nation's u n crowned
poet laureate died Tuesday in
Pcler Bent Brigham hospital
in Boston. Death was attribu
ted to a blood clot in the
lung.
Civil Defense Said
Giving False Sense
Salcm-WPIi - Rep. Beulah
Hand (D-Milwaukie) said
Tuesday the Oregon Civil De
fense Agency could be abolish
ed, leaving only a token of
fice to handle federal surplus
property details for county
organizations.
Mrs. Hand said she thinks
civil defense, as practiced in
Oregon, has given people a
false sense of security.
She said, however, she docs
think civil defense has a place
in the country's national de
fense picture on a federal
level.
Portland-llPH- The "wind
fall" Oregonians hoped for
in income tax refunds because
of trees blown down last Oct.
12 isn't the breeze many ex
pected. "It's tougher than most
people think." said a federal
tax man. The tree situation
is causing tax officials-and
taxpayers - more headaches
than any other item.
Don't get them wrong - the
loss is icductable. But figur
ing the loss - to the satisfac
tion of the tax people - takes
a bit of doing.
An Internal Revenue Serv
ice spokesman said there
probably was a little "too
much optimistic material" put
out right after the big blow.
Slate and federal officials
said many persons were un
der one big misapprehension,
lt is this:
That they could report
loss, for example, of a couple
of 10-year-old apple trees, get
a nurseryman to say how
much they were worth, and
then deduct that amount as
loss.
No can do, say the tax men.
Entitled To Deduct
But the IRS says "if your
uninsured trees or shrubs
were damaged or destroyed,
you are entitled to deduct
the amount that damage re
duced the fair market value
of your residential property
as a whole."
That's a big mouthful, but
the tax people tried to simpli
fy it. First, in most cases, de
ductions should be itemized
on tile tax form. Then the IRS
lists two methods which ap
ply to non-commercial tree
losses.
One- The amount you spent
to remove destroyed trees or
shrubs, prune or otherwise re
pair damaged trees or shrubs,
and to replant the lost trees
or shrubs will serve as a meas
ure of this loss of value.
Two- A competent real es
tate appraisal of the loss of
value of the property as a
whole because of storm dam
age. Any such appraisals
should be in writing and
should "be the work of a
qualified appraiser who has
made a personal inspection of
the properly." Loss determin
ed by this method must also
be reduced by insurance, sal
vage, or other recovery to
determine the deductible loss.
If you claim a casualty loss
deduction a copy of the de
duction computation should
be attached to the return. You
Civil Defense Plans
Completed at SOC
Ashland - Civil Defense
plans and preparations for
Southern Oregon college have
been completed, Robert Mc
Coy, chairman of the campus
Civil Defense committee, has
announced.
According to McCoy, South-,
ern Oregon college has one of
the most adequate defense
setups in southern Oregon. He
noted that these facilities had
been earmarked in coopera
tion with civil defense author
ities in their basic details, but
that the advent of the Cuban
crisis had necessitated that
they be updated and that more
information be provided to
students and faculty members.
Immediately prior to the
crisis, President Elmo N. Stev
enson appointed McCoy as
chairman of a commitce com
posed of Carson Vehrs, direc
tor of dormitory services,
Hugh G. Simpson, director of
information, and Lowell Lux,
of the Siskiyou newspaper
staff, who served as a student
representative.
Initial steps toward the for
mation of a satisfactory civil
defense program for the col
lege were taken at a special
meeting conducted by Fred
Heard, Siskiyou editor, who
introduced Buford Johnson,
deputy director of civil de
fense for Jackson county;
Warren Lomax, civil defense
director for the Ashland area;
and Maj. Gen. Joseph Hicks,
director of civil defense for
the county.
Followins the meeting, the
campus committee conducted
a scries of conferences result
ing in the placement of civil
defense posters at strategic lo
cations in every campus build
ing and the distribution of a
civil defense leaflet to mem
bers of the student body, fac
ulty, and civil service staff at
SOC.
This distribution was ef
fected by enlisting the aid
of the members of a student
council under the direction of
President Bill Bobber. Mean
while, a list of general instruc
tions for each shelter on cam
pus was prepared which in
cluded such items as shelter
capacities, distribution of food
and water available, sanita
tion measures, communica
tions facilities, use of radio
logical monitory equipment,
and the readying of the shel
ter space.
Additional Instructions
Additional instructions in
volved such items as keeping
shelter occupants informed.
giving every occupant a job to
do, the rationing of food and
other supplies, and special di
rections involving specific
shelter conditions. For in
stance a map of the shelter
was included with directions
as to how it could be made
safe from radiological attack.
Signs indicating fallout
shelters have been placed at
designated shelter areas in co
operation with local civil de
fense authorities, and a series
of briefings has been conduct
ed for all campus living or
ganizations and commuter
groups. At the meetings, de
fense problems were discussed
and each organization was as
signed specific duties in rela
tion to the use and mainten
ance of the shelters to which
they were assigned.
McCoy pointed out that the
entire civil defense program
had been conducted in such a
way that no clement of fear or
panic had been encountered at
any time. He also praised the
work of the administration,
faculty, students and civil de
fense authorities for their co
operation and the help extend
ed throughout the project,
Hoffa Calls for
March on Capitol
La using. M ich -WW- A ma rch
on the nation's Capitol has
been called for by Teamsters
Union boss James R. Hoffa to
protest labor legislation in the
works by several congress
men.
lluffa. in a speech here
Tuesday, promised to lead
"hunderds of thousands" of
workers himself to protest the
bills which he referred to as
"garbage" and which he said
would destroy the labor move
ment in the United States.
Hoffa. in his speech to 175
delegates to the annual legis
lative conference of the Mich
igan State Building and Con
struction Trades Union, called
the congressmen sponsoring
the bills "bums."
The congressmen to whom
he was referring were Sen.
John L. McClcllan (D-Ark.l,
Sen. Barry Goldwalcr (R
Ariz.) and Rep. Dave Martin
(R-Neb.).
don't have to send in docu
ments evidencing the repair
expenditures or copies of the
appraisals with the return.
But, the IRS warns, you'd bel
ter be prepared to present
them upon request.
Examples Given
Here are a couple of exam
ples listed by the IRS for
method one:
Amount spent removing
trees- $63.
Amount spent replanting
trees - $43.
Amount spent repairing
roof - $24.
Cost or replacing window
- S4.
Total restoration cost $134.
Amount paid by insurance
-$0.
Amount deductible - $134.
Or:
Amount spent removing
trees $63.
Amount spent replanting
trees -$43.
Amount spent repairing
roof - $98.
Amount spent repairing
window - $7.
Total restoration cost $211.
Amount paid by insurance
- $55.
Amount deductible - $156.
State Rules Similar
A spokesman for the State
Tax commission said its rules
generally follow those of the
IRS though the state holds
more to the real estate ap
praisal of the property. A lot
of people might be discour
aged, unless losses were ex
tremely heavy, because ihe
cost of the appraisal could be
more than they would get in
rebates. And getting compara
tive appraisals before and af
ter the loss is another head
ache. It isn't so bad on other
property. For damage to hous
es, fences, garages or other
residential buildings, the act-1
ual amount spent to repair
the storm damage, minus any
reimbursement by insurance,
will be accepted as evidence
of the deductible loss for that
damage, the IRS said.
But its the trees that arc
causing the confusion. Tax
people say there's never been
anything quite like it before
- because Oregon never had
such a windstorm before.
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Radioactivity Said
High in Japan
Tokyo -fliPH- An agency of
the Japanese government said
today Soviet nuclear testing
apparently was responsible
for the highest radioactivity
in years in snow and rain in
western Japan.
The government's Radioac
tive Countcrmeasurcs Head
quarters reported the most
radioactivity during the
month ending Jan. 15 was reg
istered at Yonago, on the west
coast of the main island of
Honshu.
Snow there had a reading
of 2,523 millicurcs per square
kilometer.
Japanese authorities gener
ally consider any reading over
2.500 millicurcs as grounds
for a closer check on public
health.
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